Progress for February

Once again we have only managed to work on the house over the weekend and the odd day here and there. We now have hemp surrounding the entire renovation up to to at least 2.4m - it is a milestone. We are getting close to the stage of using the hempcrete as ceiling insulation. We will be lining the ceiling with MgO boards (a board that looks like plasterboard but is breathable) then dumping a mix of lime, hemp and water (no sand this time). This will then join up with our hemp walls so that our ceiling and walls will be completely cocooned.

looking towards the front of the house

this area above the highlight windows was particularly tricky to hemp
with big beams and a small gap between the formwork and roof. It could be worse.
There would be less gap with a skillion roof.

you can see where the hemp has been finished to, right where the black
bituminous paint is, the hemping will continue all the way along

The west side of the link, the hemp is finished within the old part of the
house, in fact the hempcrete is filled right up against the old back door.

We do have 3 tonnes of lime in one of the sheds but as you can
see we are down to 4 pallets of lime still sitting on the extension floor.

this was our lime

Looking into the window from the north, eventually there will be some
decking here.